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Quotes About Protection

Mao Tse. Leigh tried to push away the horrible thoughts swimming in her head. Mao Tse was fine. She was just hiding. No one wanted to hurt her. They wanted something else.
~ Edie Claire
I feel very strongly that this modern fear of the home becoming non-existent can be countered only if those of us who want to be sure our little spot is really a home take very practical measures to be sure that it is just that, and not a collection of furniture sitting in some sort of enclosure being protected from wind and storm.
~ Edith Schaeffer
There is a place for government in the affairs of men, and our Declaration of Independence tells us precisely what that place is. The role of government is to protect individuals in their God-given individual rights. Freedom is the natural birthright of man, but all that government can do in behalf of freedom is to let the individual alone, and it should secure him in his rights by making others let him alone.
~ Edmund A. Opitz
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
~ Edmund Burke
The one who knows and fears the Lord of Hosts need fear no other.
~ Edmund P. Clowney
Guarded with ships, and all our sea our own.
~ Edmund Waller
Whoever heard of a woman having to enter her house past a row of guns! These weren't Indian days—pioneer scalping days.
~ Edna Ferber
Music, my rampart and my only one.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Así funciona la cabeza de mamá: los hombres en general, y nuestro padre en particular, llevan las riendas de las cosas. Pero en el fondo, en la penumbra, las mujeres disponemos de una sanción final, de una palabra inapelable. Si el clan por algún motivo está en peligro y los hombres, en su ceguera consuetudinaria, en su simpleza ramplona, no advierten el riesgo, somos nosotras las que debemos intervenir.
~ Eduardo Sacheri
It is not enough to understand the natural world. The point is to defend and preserve it.
~ Edward Abbey
The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.
~ Edward Abbey
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
~ Edward Abbey
When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.
~ Edward Abbey
God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
~ Edward Abbey
I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject.
~ Edward Abbey
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
~ Edward Abbey
My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.
~ Edward Abbey
If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
~ Edward Abbey
Hayduke thought. Finally the idea arrived. He said, 'My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving. That's simple, right?
~ Edward Abbey
I always write with my .357 Magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
~ Edward Abbey
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
~ Edward Abbey
If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.
~ Edward Abbey
No path between the stranger's home and ours should be left unclosed, or the sorrow and evil of his home may descend to ours.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.
~ Edward Burns